Mark and Rex finish out Season 2 strong with a recap of a year like no other and a look toward the vast possibilities of the future.

TRANSCRIPT

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host, Mark Moore and your co host Rex Gurney on racks we have come to the end of a season. So we're finishing up season two. And so on today's episode, it's just you and I, and we're gonna kind of take a look back at the year. And obviously, it's been a year that comes along, you know, once in a generation, right, yeah. And we really need to process that. And also, we're going to look at, what will it look like for us to move forward, to move forward. And to understand the realities that happen in 2020. I understand where God is calling us.

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And there's one thing I really want our listening audience out there to understand that when Mark and I talked about end of the season, it doesn't mean we'll never be back again. I know that every time the girlfriend broke up with, she always said, Rex, this is the end of the season. And there was no season two. So we are actually going to be back we

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can promise right we probably will be a season unless we both get run over by a bus. That's true. Then there will be a season three,

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there will be a season three. So we hope you enjoy this recap of season two and a look back at 2020. Well, Rex, this says definitely been

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a year it has been quite a year. I don't think any of us anticipated what kind of year it was going to be even right even the first few episodes that I joined in the in the podcast. Yeah, it's not at the beginning, but close to the beginning.

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Right. Well, yeah, I was gonna give a little a little bit. Okay. Okay. Okay. So with with just I think we're, we're now moving into what we're gonna want to look at as dedicated seasons. But our first we're closing in on 70 episodes. Wow. 70 070 they still let us do that hang? No, I don't I you know, I think we're still hiding under there. But it's 70 episodes are first episode aired on January 15 2019. Oh, wow. 2019. Well, over two years ago, yeah. So a little over two years, which is

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wild. Hell might have been in like, a decade or an epoch or era ago.

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Since then. Right. Exactly. And, and Rex, you were actually a guest on the show. Okay, just a guest in late February. What were we talking? We talked about Protestantism, types of history of jellicle history of that. Yeah. So we kind of highlighted the, you know, in some ways, the history of the evangelical church. And, and, and that's maybe, you know, we had obviously, we were friends and talked before, and maybe when with that episode, I was like, you know, this would be great having Rex as a regular voice. So you joined, I asked you and you graciously accepted, and you joined as a co host in May. Okay. In May. And in that first episode, you were on was actually entitled, Vietnam, the monkeys, and classic. And we had Derek Martin or theater director, we're all over the place. Yeah, exactly. We've covered we've covered all of our bases, okay. And we range from, you know, when people ask, like, Hey, what's the podcast about? Like, what's a little bit about everything having to do with the spiritual life? The understanding, you know, how your Christianity up applies to the rest of the world, how you view the arts, we're looking at spiritual disciplines and spiritual practices, right, you know, and that's something that's near and dear to both of our hearts. And so and then some different expressions of the Christian faith. Yes, exactly.

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Celtic spirituality, a little bit on orthodoxy.

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Right. Right. And, and we were able to then kind of over 2020 start to expand. Right. And, and we'll talk about that, you know, we were able to kind of reach out to authors and professors, and academics throughout the US. And even we, we went International, by the times, right, this season was over, by the time when seaso